Reply To: Merging Topics

[Guy Farrish]

Generally: stand alone – new slants, new perspectives.

To be discursive for a sec – depends on how/why the previous thread ended – I recently started a thread asking if anyone had any thoughts/photos of a show I missed – a couple of people answered and then someone started another thread with their photos of the show. I wouldn’t have minded the two threads being merged in any way from my point of view – but I can see that the other poster might have wanted his thread to stand as the headline – he had been to the show, taken the photos and taken the time to post them for goodness sake, why wouldn’t he! Merging my request on the end would have confused the heck out of other people.

There was another thread which ended with a whiff of gunpowder and the question arose independently – thought leaving the old thread to fade away was an excellent idea.

If there are two threads, roughly contemporaneous, that address the same thing – no problem – in most cases however, I’d leave them alone.